The first table below looks at the demand for VB6 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VB6 over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Cambridgeshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6)
Rank - 62 -
Contract jobs citing VB6 0 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire - 0.429% -
As % of the Programming Languages category - 0.787% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £488 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £320 £288
% change year-on-year
+1.56% +11.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+27.27% -21.42%
All Programming Languages
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
254 381 267
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 46.35% 54.43% 51.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 197 121
Average daily rate £303 £313 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.20% +4.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £228 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £450 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 38 38
Average hourly rate £40.00 £37.50 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% +15.38%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.35 £32.50 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £60.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
VB6
East of England

VB6
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing VB6 across the Cambridgeshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Cambridgeshire VB6 Jobs Demand Trend

VB6
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing VB6 across the Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire VB6 Daily Rate Trend

VB6
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing VB6 across the Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire VB6 Hourly Rate Trend

VB6
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire region citing VB6 also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited VB6.

1 9 (100.00%) C#
1 9 (100.00%) DHTML
1 9 (100.00%) VB
1 9 (100.00%) .NET
1 9 (100.00%) Oracle
1 9 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 9 (100.00%) NHibernate
1 9 (100.00%) WCF
2 7 (77.78%) ASP
2 7 (77.78%) COM+
2 7 (77.78%) LINQ
3 6 (66.67%) Finance
4 5 (55.56%) User Acceptance Testing
4 5 (55.56%) Investment Management
5 4 (44.44%) Risk Management
6 2 (22.22%) Banking
6 2 (22.22%) Asset Management
7 1 (11.11%) Business Development
7 1 (11.11%) Data Migration
7 1 (11.11%) Sybase
7 1 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
7 1 (11.11%) Migration

VB6
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire region citing VB6 also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited VB6. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (100.00%) DHTML
1 9 (100.00%) .NET
1 9 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 9 (100.00%) NHibernate
1 9 (100.00%) WCF
2 7 (77.78%) ASP
2 7 (77.78%) COM+
2 7 (77.78%) LINQ
General
1 6 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Developer
2 8 (88.89%) .NET Developer
3 6 (66.67%) ASP.NET Developer
4 4 (44.44%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 4 (44.44%) C# .NET Developer
4 4 (44.44%) C# Developer
5 2 (22.22%) Analyst Developer
5 2 (22.22%) Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) User Acceptance Testing
1 5 (55.56%) Investment Management
2 4 (44.44%) Risk Management
3 2 (22.22%) Asset Management
4 1 (11.11%) Business Development
4 1 (11.11%) Data Migration
4 1 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (11.11%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) C#
1 9 (100.00%) VB
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Sybase